This is a great illustration of the pitfalls of home schooling.
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Originally Posted by OhioIstheBest
Capitalism versus Socialism
The next week the grass needed mowed again. This time I decided to show him how socialism works. He cut the grass and came to me and asked to be paid the same $20. I withheld $8 and told him this was for federal income tax. I gave $2 to his younger sister, who did no work, and told him this was only fair. I withheld $4 and told him it was for union dues. (Because he needs a union to tell him I ripped him off last week). I withheld another $5 and told him that it was for the administrative costs of dividing up the money. I gave him the one dollar that was left over.When he cried for receiving $1 for doing the same thing he did last week but received 20 times the amount of money, I told him to stop being “selfish” and “greedy” and called him a racist. Hard work gets you nowhere.
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What a travesty of an education, not only does it have absolutely nothing to do with any known concept of "socialism" it leaves out some rather basic elements of civil capitalist society.
The $8.00 in taxes pays for the roads the brings the gas for his lawn mower, it pays for the regulatory agency that insures that the lawn mower won't chop off his young foot, and the even it does, the judiciary for which he can bring suit against the manufacturer. The rest is just too convoluted to merit a response.
Perhaps, if you really wanted to teach your son a small lesson about socialism you could have told him that, as most parents should, that the lawn needed mowing and that mowing the lawn without any further compensation was his contribution to the family that furnishes him food, clothing and clean safe place to lay his head at night.
That is one form of socialism.
Another form of socialism would be for him and his sister to join with other kids on the block to form a company where each member shared equally in the profits of their labor. One kid might supply the lawn mower, another the gas, others might go out and solicit business, others would mow the lawns, each contributing their equal efforts dependent upon their talents and each sharing equally from the profits.
That too is another form of socialism.
Which works best, there are advantages and disadvantages to both capitalism and socialism but without a proper understanding of either you have condemned your son to same stupidity that seems to be rampant in the country today.
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